Ati's new Trueform technology

[richleader]

I guess it takes guts to keep trying to innovate when they're a product cycle behind, but is there any point? Their Radeon's geewhiz animation feature has yet to be taken advantage of, despite Ati's monster market share (though I am not sure how much the Radeon plays in that) because they have been one step behind. What's the possibility that propiatary schemes will pay off for ATI?

 

[Yoshi]

ATI claims that Trueform uses features included in DX8. My guess is that TrueForm is just a trade name for something that does the same thing that other cards that support DX8 features do.

I don't think anyone in the near future will be going out on the 3D limb and introduce something like Glide from 3Dfx.

Also, I would not exaxtly say that ATI is a product cycle behind...assuming you are comparing them to nVidia. The Radeon and GeForce2 were different but similar performing animals. It is very normal for business who make competing products to release next generation units out of sync.

 

[richleader]

"ATI claims that Trueform uses features included in DX8. My guess is that TrueForm is just a trade name for something that does the same thing that other cards that support DX8 features do."

True, but I was directly comparing it to the Radeon's feature set, which remains unused.

I don't think anyone in the near future will be going out on the 3D limb and introduce something like Glide from 3Dfx.

Also, I would not exaxtly say that ATI is a product cycle behind...assuming you are comparing them to nVidia. The Radeon and GeForce2 were different but similar performing animals. "

And the Geforce2 arrived far earlier than the Radeon. They may be releasing products out of sync, but it's now Nvidia's sync that matters.

 

[BlvdKing]

I hope this is something that doesn't take any special coding to implement, like FSAA. ATI doesn't court the developers as well as NVidia.

 

[Deeko]

<< And the Geforce2 arrived far earlier than the Radeon. They may be releasing products out of sync, but it's now Nvidia's sync that matters. >>


Wow, the Radeon arived later, but was better. It's amazing how that works, isn't it?

 

[richleader]

And? If ATI is playing catch up, then they should be finding ways to deliver hardware that does what Nvidia does, better. Not wasting resources on proprietary shaders. Even AMD is looking to phase 3dnow out (even though in many ways it's more functional currently than SSE), though that is a less than stellar analogy.